Isn’t the catcher supposed to be on the bottom?

If they’re in a kickboxing class it sounds like they are.

I spotted the audience much less in the final and I felt the camera was much closer in on the performers than the semis. My thought on the flag changes was that you can just avoid broadcasting an audience flag with some work with camera shots, but not if a performer pulls a flag, and they’re trying to avoid ruffling the feathers of more bigoted countries while banning as little as possible for the audience, and that might be what we saw happen.

For performers, which is still fucked. But they did loosen the restrictions on flags for the audience - I definitely spotted Palestinian flags during the semis.

It seemed like they had audio issues with the broadcast for that song on top of audio issues at the bar I was at, it really didn’t show the song in the best light but I suspect it was their best performance of the entire contest and it’s a shame the audio issues hurt it, I’ll have to rewatch it. I’m not sure they deserved 0, but I thought it was bad enough it was funny they got zero.

Switzerland did not deserve that goose egg. Everyone in the bar I was at (US, MN) was shocked when that was announced, we also booed Israel and laughed at UK getting zero (even if that is the song that comes the closest to describing this year’s Eurovision - what the hell just happened? No clue but I hate it). We were hyped for Austria pulling out the win.

(Sweden won the bar votes, of course)

from the UK

the past few years set the bar really low on that…

I also had a coworker named America and I’m pretty sure her parents were immigrants - English was pretty clearly not my coworker’s first language. I think it works for her situation. (Funny enough, it was her reckless behavior that caused me to spend my last few weeks at that job on light duty…)

There’s also America Ferrera, I don’t think the name is that weird.

and aero is everything

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That’s not really weird for American road sizes. If I had to guess that’s more of a stroad with speeds around 64 km/h (40 mph), possibly officially 48 km/h (30 mph) with everyone doing 10 mph over the speed limit because the roads aren’t designed to slow traffic to safe city speeds. Most of our roads are like this, and it’s a contributor to our abhorrent pedestrian fatality rate.

There’s a way to shut off the beeping entirely on most microwaves, but then forgetting your food is much more likely.

Good luck to all the stagehands who have to clean up the sand after France, also someone needs to come up with an Anakin meme for this

I like Portugal and I’m surprised it qualified ahead of a few others.

F in chat for Belgium

Didn’t Peace Corps get defunded?

How dare you remind me that S Club 7 exists. D:

Yeah, but if they left one sister out, could you imagine the kind of snub it would be for her?

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Some of those have really low weight limits too though, my ebike is 250 pounds but I’m comfortably under that.